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The t-shirts that tech people don’t want anymore: Seattle thrift-store swag deadpool, 2024 edition

My idea of weekend fun is browsing the racks at Seattle-area thrift stores in search of once-prized tech swag that… Read More

Meta laying off 10,000 more workers, four months after Facebook parent cut 11,000

Meta announced another round of significant layoffs on Tuesday, as the parent company of Facebook and Instagram said it would… Read More

Filing: Facebook parent Meta to cut 726 jobs in Seattle region as part of broader layoffs

Meta, parent company of Facebook, Oculus, WhatsApp, and Instagram, will lay off 419 workers in Seattle and another 307 in… Read More

Facebook parent Meta fined $24.6M for violating Washington state’s political ad disclosure law

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was fined the maximum penalty of $24.6 million on Wednesday for violating Washington state’s… Read More

Debunked rumor of serial killer in Seattle offers another lesson in spotting misinformation

Quick-spreading claims on social media over the weekend about a suspected serial killer in the Seattle area have been refuted… Read More

Meta officially cuts ribbon on growing Bellevue office space as tech and art merge in Spring District

With cranes still swinging overhead and construction continuing on the Spring District in Bellevue, Wash., Meta officially threw open the… Read More

Meta’s new Seattle leader: ‘The road to the metaverse passes through the Pacific Northwest’

In Paresh Rajwat‘s 20-year journey across the tech landscape, he’s held leadership positions at Apple, Criteo, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. For… Read More

‘Gold standard’ or unconstitutional? Facebook and Wash. state AG spar over political ad disclosure law

Facebook parent company Meta and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson agree on this: the state’s campaign advertising disclosure law is… Read More

Rajeev Rajan, former engineering lead for Meta in Seattle, is joining Atlassian as CTO

— Rajeev Rajan, who most recently led engineering efforts in Seattle for Meta, is joining Atlassian in May as the company’s… Read More

Amazon market value soars $170B as Meta keeps sinking in aftermath of pivotal earnings reports

Amazon stock is up more than 12% in trading Friday morning after its fourth-quarter earnings report, adding more than $170… Read More

Meta grabbing more space in Bellevue’s Spring District with lease of fifth office building

Looking to expand its already sizable stake in Bellevue, Wash., Facebook’s parent company Meta is making a move on another… Read More

Seattle startup calls Meta’s VR glove prototype ‘substantively identical’ to its own patented tech

Meta made a big announcement Tuesday about how it hopes to bring touch to the virtual world through the use… Read More

Microsoft and Meta partner to integrate Teams and Workplace enterprise collaboration tools

Meta and Microsoft are teaming up. The company formerly known as Facebook is partnering with the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant… Read More

Public mural installation in Seattle, backed by Facebook, promotes COVID vaccine participation

A new art project being unveiled in Seattle today is part of an effort by Facebook and others to promote… Read More

Tech Moves: Bioengineer joins AI2 incubator; Icosavax adds execs, expands board; and more

— The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) added bioengineer Jenny Cronin as a principal working with entrepreneurs in AI2’s startup… Read More

Facebook’s new virtual meeting app is ‘great news’ and ‘validating’ for these Seattle entrepreneurs

Facebook today unveiled its vision for the future of work: a virtual reality experience called Horizon Workrooms that uses avatars… Read More

Are we just ants in a death spiral? Researchers call for scientific studies of social media networks

As misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines is spiking, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) is gearing… Read More

Livestreaming report: Amazon’s ‘New World’ gains attention as gamers flock to closed beta

Twitch’s growth rate has been slowed but not eliminated in the summer months; Facebook Gaming continues to grow its share… Read More

Facebook’s satellite connectivity team switches over to Amazon’s Project Kuiper

Facebook has struck a deal to have more than a dozen of its wireless internet experts move over to Amazon… Read More

Facebook inks another lease in Seattle area, where it now has 7K employees and 3.3M square feet

Facebook is grabbing more space in the sprawling Spring District development in Bellevue, Wash., securing a lease for Block 5,… Read More

Facebook acquires Seattle virtual reality gaming company BigBox VR, makers of Population: One

Seattle startup BigBox VR, the company behind multiplayer virtual reality game POPULATION: ONE, has been acquired by Facebook. Facebook was… Read More

Seattle region ranks No. 1 in U.S. for tech office space leases as 14 big deals help eclipse Bay Area

The Seattle region is the leading U.S. market for large tech office space leases, eclipsing the San Francisco Bay Area… Read More

Remote work 1 year later: The pandemic sent tech workers home — when and how will they return?

It’s been exactly one year since Microsoft recommended that its nearly 54,000 Seattle-area employees work from home as a mysterious… Read More

‘Widespread failure to comply’: Why Washington state’s AG is suing Google, again

[Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in journalist Eli Sanders’ “Wild West” newsletter, which covers internet-related legal issues. Subscribe here.]… Read More

Microsoft says U.S. should copy Australian law targeting Google and Facebook over news content

Microsoft likes Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay local publishers for content included in search results or news… Read More

Seattle startup promoting women entrepreneurs is puzzled by Facebook’s ban of its ads

The TheWMarketplace, a Seattle-based platform promoting women and diverse entrepreneurs, was excited to feature Askanya Chocolates and its Haitian founder… Read More

20 years after Microsoft’s antitrust fight, Steve Ballmer betting that Big Tech won’t be broken up

Twenty years after Microsoft waged its own antitrust battle with the U.S. government, former CEO Steve Ballmer is betting that… Read More

Facebook buys REI’s new HQ for $367M, expanding Seattle-area footprint beyond 3M square feet

Facebook is yet again expanding in the Seattle region, its largest engineering hub outside of Silicon Valley. The social media… Read More

Facebook extends work from home option for employees until July 2021

Facebook, which operates a large engineering outpost in Seattle, said today that it will allow employees to work from home… Read More

Is he in a barn? Where are the books? Hearing exposes design lapses in offices of tech CEOs

Seated in front of the world (virtually) during a House Judiciary Committee antitrust hearing, the CEOs of the richest technology… Read More